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Eating San Sebastian
Here is a link to my new story on Gonomad.com, Eating San Sebastian: Three meals, hard cider and a whole lot of Pintxos
Tapas San Sebastian
San Sebastian is the Tapas Mecca of the world. If the love of food has ever reached a spiritual level, it is here. This is where you will find tapas (pintxos) in all their variety, complexity, and beautiful grand simplicity. Anthropologist Jacqueline Urla once said to me that, “food in […]
Photographing La Crema, the burning of Las Fallas, Valencia 2011
Photographing La Crema, the burning of the fallas in Valencia is thrilling and just a little dangerous. The climax of a week of partying and huge fireworks displays, the final act is the burning of the over 300 fallas around the city. The image above was taken in front the […]
Las Fallas Burning, Valencia 2011
The Lass Fallas festival in Valencia ends in fevered pitch with fire works and the burning of the 350 paper mache statues around the city.Each neighborhood elects two sets of Queens, a woman and a younger girl, 12 of which are chosen to attend the the burning of the children’s […]
Las Fallas Festival Valencia Spain
The Las Fallas festival in Valencia Spain is hard to put into words. It is one of those “you have to have been here to get it” events. People construct huge paper mache scenes from the whimsical to those that satirize politics and world events. In the end, they burn […]